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A Charleston newspaper reported Friday that its review of tickets written by state troopers in the past five years shows white people were cited twice as often as black people, reflecting the state's population.

Sixty-two percent of tickets were written to white motorists, 31 percent to black motorists, The Post and Courier said of 2.2 million tickets issued by troopers from 2003 to 2007. The newspaper obtained the data through the Freedom of Information Act.

Yet, black people were twice as likely as white people to be arrested for failing to stop for an officer.